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  • Man stabs mother to death over N20,000

    A young man in Ede, the headquarters of Ede South Local Government Area of Osun State, has allegedly stabbed his mother to death.

    The suspect, named Christian, who graduated last year from the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Osun State, reportedly had an argument with his mother for not given him the N20,000 he demanded from her.

    It was learnt that  he allegedly dragged his mother, a widow, into one of the rooms in their apartment, which was located at Oba ‘Laoye area of the town before  stabbing her.

    Weeping profusely, the suspect’s younger sister, Folake,  told reporters that she witnessed the incident.

    Folake said their mother’s plea that she could not provide N20,000  fell on Christian’s deaf ears.

    According to her, she joined her mother, who was known as Iya Christian, to appeal to his brother,  whom she said “was desperate to collect the money by all means”.

    She said:  “Our mother told him to exercise patience with her because she was broke. But Christian was only adamant that he must collect the money on the spot.

    “It was this same mother that he killed that single-handedly sponsored his education from primary school till he graduated from the university last year. Since we lost our father, this woman had been our pillar of support.

    “He was very rough with our mother. He dragged her on the floor into the room, locked the door despite my pleading and stabbed her to death.

    “Before help could reach our mother, who was crying and begging him all along, he had killed her.

    “When we saw blood flowing from underneath the door, sympathisers forced the door open. But it was late to save her life.

    “Beside our mother’s lifeless body was the beast looking blank.  There were deep cuts on our mother’s head and neck.”

    The deceased was buried last Friday and the suspect is being detained at the State Criminal Investigation Department on Ring Road, Osogbo.

    The acting police spokesman, Mr. Egbedele Ajibade, said the suspect would be charged to court after completion of investigation.

  • Mother of quintuplets seeks help

    Mother of quintuplets seeks help

    A 43-year-old woman, Mrs Ifeoma Nnamani, is seeking help to pay the $20,000, debt she incurred on delivering four of her quintuplets at the Providence Parazana Medical Centre in California, the United States.

    Mrs Nnamani travelled overseas on referral, after losing one of the babies during delivery in Nigeria  due to complications.

    She said: With the help of a Reverend Father in “the United States (US), we were linked with the hospital where I delivered the remaining four babies in California. After the delivery, many people in the Diaspora that got the news rallied round us and through the help of an insurance company and some other individuals, my babies stayed in the incubators. But because of their medical concerns, the support we were receiving could not match the debt incurred”.

    Recalling how she incurred the debt, she said: “My children spent two months in incubators, last year. For every day, we were billed 300 dollars. We still owe the hospital $20,000. This is why we are begging the government and Nigerians to come to our aid.”

    Mrs Nnamani said she practised exclusive breast feeding, adding that her children did not fall ill after they were discharged and allowed to come back to the country after an undertaking to settle the bill.

    She continued: “Taking care of the children has not been an easy task”.

    Founder, Colostrum International, Mrs. Bunmi Ogundimu said her organisation visited the parents after the arrival of the babies to advise the mother on the importance of breast feeding. And pleasantly enough,she heeded it.”

    Contributions can be made to the FirstBank account of Mrs Utoh Nnamani Ifeoma with number 3021277563. She can also be contacted on 08033481255 08037461445,  ifeomautohnnamani@gmail.com

    Mrs. Ogundimu said her organisation appreciated the effort made by the mother to breast feed the babies exclusively.

    The babies’ father, Mr Nnaemeka Nnamani, said some Nigerian hospitals rejected his wife during labour, saying they could not help the situation.

    He said: “They told us that they can only save my wife and two or three of the babies but I wanted all my five children alive. This made us seek for fund to travel abroad.”

    Nnamani said his shop got burnt four years ago and he has been without any source of livelihood since then. He said he depended on his wife’s salary as a level seven worker to feed.

  • Babatunde Okewale celebrates mother at 80

    There would never be enough words to capture the feelings of a mother towards her child. In a mother, you find the truest kind of friendship and the purest kind of love. This explains why Dr. Babatunde Okewale, the Chief Medical Director of St. Ives Hospital and Chairman of W-FM, Nigeria’s first radio station for women and their families, is honouring his beautiful mother later today.

    What greater aspiration or challenge is there for a mother than the hope of raising a great son or daughter? The lovable woman, Chief Mrs Susannah Ayoka Adenike Okewale, turned 80 on March 13 and the popular Lagos doctor and his siblings decided to host their darling mother, grandmother and great grandmother in a high octane 80th shindig at Amazing Grace Event Centre, Adigbe Estate, Agbeloba, Abeokuta, Ogun State.

    The crème de la crème of the Nigerian society will turn out in their numbers to support one of their own as he rolls out the big drums for his mother.

  • Mother, son ‘slit’ husband’s throat with knife

    A 49-year old woman and her son, 31, were yesterday arraigned at an Ebute Meta Chief Magistrates’ Court in Lagos for the alleged murder of her 49-year-old husband, Lucky Bassey.

    Grace Bassey and Benjamin Otu were alleged to have conspired to slit the pastor’s throat with a kitchen knife.

    Prosecuting Inspector Julius Babatope said the accused committed the offence on January 25 around 4am on 23, Abari Street, Iyana-Ipaja, a Lagos suburb.

    Babatope said the accused made the incident look like suicide.

    Magistrate H.O. Omisore refused to take the plea of the accused because her court lacks jurisdiction to try murder.

    Omisore directed the prosecutor to duplicate the case file and forward it to the office of the Directorate of Public Prosecutions (DPPs) for advice.

    She ordered that the accused be remanded in the Ikoyi Prisons pending receipt of the DPP’s advice.

    She said the advice would indicate the court where the accused would be tried.

    Omisore adjourned the case to April 12.

  • FIRS director, mother of four arraigned for alleged tax fraud

    FIRS director, mother of four arraigned for alleged tax fraud

    A Deputy Director, Regional Tax Office of the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS), Abumere Joseph Osagie and a mother of four, Jamila Ojora, were arraigned yesterday before the High Court of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Maitama.

    They were, in a two-count charge filed against them by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), charged with criminal conspiracy and receipt of gratification.

    Osagie and  Ojora were said to have approached the Chancellor of Baze University, Abuja, Senator Ahmed Datti with  a tax assessment of N20,029,496.00  on January 27, 2016,  through a letter of intent, which he paid.

    Senator Datti was said to have later requested for the assessment certificate, which the two allegedly  refused to issue. The EFCC said rather than issue Datti with the assessment certificate, the defendants  allegedly demanded for N5million gratification.

    In a bid to establish the legitimacy of the defendants activities, EFCC’s marked N5million was delivered to Osagie through Ojora, in a sting operation, which led to her arrest. Ojora’s confession was said to have led to Osagie’s arrest.

    The offence contravenes Section 17(1)(a) and punishable under 17 (1) (c) of the Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Act, 2000. One of the counts, reads: “Abumere Joseph Osagie and Jamila Ojora on or about January 27, 2016 in Abuja within the jurisdiction of this Honourable Court, corruptly accepted the sum of N5,000,000.00 (five million naira) from one Senator Ahmed Datti as a gift for having done a tax assessment for Baze University.”

  • Mother, hospital trade words over son’s death

    Mother, hospital trade words over son’s death

    •Removal of his body sparks row

    Seeing my son die in my presence was an awful experience. I screamed for help but I got no response. My son convulsed in my eyes; I saw him breathe his last. I watched helplessly as he writhed in pains.”

    These were the words of Mrs Temiloluwa Adewunmi, whose son, Oluwamurewa, died last Saturday at Ayodele Hospital in Fagba, Lagos.

    The 27-year-old trader said her son was placed on oxygen immediately he got to the hospital, adding that he died after power outage. Since then, she said, the hospital has refused to release his body.

    Narrating her ordeal, she said her six-month-old boy started running temperature sometime last week and was taken to Ifako General Hospital.

    “When we got to the general hospital last Wednesday, we were told he should be admitted but there was no bed space. I bought the drug prescribed by the physician and my son’s temperature returned to normal.

    “I was so shocked on Saturday morning when his temperature became high again. As my husband and I wanted to take him back to the general hospital, there was traffic gridlock so we resorted to Ayodele Hospital since it was in our neighbourhood,” she said.

    Mrs. Adewunmi said when they got to the hospital, they were asked to pay N5,000 for card, adding: “My husband paid N2,000 and excused himself to use the Automated Teller Machine (ATM). Immediately my son was attended to. He was placed on drip and oxygen. Even when the doctor asked if he was convulsing, I told him he has never convulsed. Within few minutes, my son began to sweat and I felt he was getting better. The doctors also assured me he was going to be fine.

    “As I sat beside him on his sick bed, there was power outage and I noticed the oxygen stopped moving. I ran out of the room to call for help but nobody answered me. I even went to knock the doctor’s door but no one was there. The nurses said they were going to put on the generator but it came on after 30 minutes. I removed the hose passed through his nose to aid breathing to allow breeze blow him. Before I removed it, he had already stretched his arms, I didn’t know he was about to leave me.

    “It was later doctors came in, one of them placed his hands on my son’s chest but he was no more. I realised the owner of the hospital was just describing where the heart was to the doctor attending to my son. Before they put on the generator, it was my phone’s light I used to see how my son was doing.

    “I have never attended the hospital before, even when I was pregnant, my friends advised me not to go there”, she said.

    Mrs Adewunmi said when the family went to collect her son’s remains on Sunday, the hospital allegedly refused and demanded N40,000 before the body could be removed.

    The bereaved mother said: “When we got there, I was shocked to see my son’s body beside the hospital’s dust bin. Even when my husband shouted that his son be given to him, the hospital management called police officers from Oko-Oba division to take him away. It is unfair. I have not been able to sleep. I see my son wherever I go. I want to bury him. I just got married last year and he is my first child. At three months, Murewa already had two set of tooth. He was a cute gentle boy. Whenever I took him to the market, he understood I was busy. He never disturbed me. I didn’t give him any home medication. I was even meant to use the money I had on me to stock my shop but my son is priority. Immediately I noticed his temperature, I went to the general hospital where I spent almost the whole day. I need my son’s body.”

    Her husband, a veterinary doctor, she said, hasn’t been himself since the incident.

    “I miss my baby, my world and my priority”, she said.

    The hospital’s administration manager, George Abayomi, said the baby was brought in a terrible condition, adding that immediately light went off, the generator came on.

    “We have two standby generators in our premises; why should it take us 30 minutes to put on the generator. His parents brought him at the last minute. He died as a result of anaemia heart failure,” he said.

    Asked why Mr Olabode Adewunmi was detained, he said: “When the father got aware of his son’s death, he began to destroy the hospital property and he couldn’t be restrained. He promised to burn down the hospital. After he left, he returned around 12:20am with a gallon of petrol which he sprinkled in the reception, it was when we couldn’t control him that we invited police officers from Oko-Oba division.

    “He came this morning (yesterday) around 9am to take his son’s body but we told him he had an outstanding balance to pay. He has to pay the bill of the services rendered. At times, in such cases, we give discount but they are insisting on not paying. He even said if we want to eat the body, we should. The body was taken to a morgue in Ikeja on Sunday and we paid N16,000.”

    Stanley Nwanali, a doctor with the hospital, said the patient’s file showed that he was brought in almost in “coma, pale and with an enlarged liver”.

    The Lagos State Public Advice Centre (PAC) has intervened in the matter, which has been referred to Ministry of Health and Health Facility Monitoring and Accreditation Agency (HEFAMAA) for investigation.

     

  • Mother, seven children die in inferno

    Mother, seven children die in inferno

    A mother and seven of her children were burnt to death yesterday in Ohufu village, Ogboji community in Ishielu local government area of Ebonyi State.

    It was gathered that the two thatched houses where the family members were sleeping suddenly caught fire around 3am.

    The mother was said to have been trapped in the inferno while battling to save one of her children.

    Only her 80-year-old husband, Sylvanus Nefuru, and one of the children, Ukamaka Nwefuru, survived the fire outbreak.

    The cause of the outbreak could not be ascertained.

    Ukamaka Nwefuru said her mother rescued her and proceeded to save another member of the family when she was trapped and died in the inferno.

     

    The Caretaker Committee Chairman of Ishielu local government area, Henry Eze, lamented the disaster and called on security agents to investigate the matter.

  • Mother, daughter remanded for alleged assault

    A 40-year-old woman, Grace Ighodalo, and her daughter, Nancy, have been remanded in prison custody by an Evbuoriaria Magistrate’s Court for allegedly assaulting Maria Agbonmwanleten.

    The accused were said to have used a knife and wood to inflict injuries on Agbonmwanleten, giving her a red eye.

    Police prosecutor Aigbedion Obakpolor, an Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP), told the court that the accused committed the offence at 6.30 pm on December 26, at 66, Upper Sokponba Road, in Ikpoba Okha Local Government Area.

    Obakpolor said the accused tore the victim’s black blouse, valued at N3,000.

    Mother and daughter pleaded not guilty to the four charges of conspiracy and assault.

    The Chief Magistrate, F. O. Idiake, remanded the accused in prison custody.

    Idaike said their bail would be considered in due course and adjourned the matter till January 21 for hearing.

  • Ortom laments inability to fulfill mother’s wish

    Ortom laments inability to fulfill mother’s wish

    Benue State Governor Samuel Ortom has lamented his inability to fulfill his late mother’s request to buy a mattress for her before she passed on.

    He spoke at Azom, Kwenev, in Guma Local Government Area, when he visited her graveside during a reception organised by her kinsmen in his honour.

    Ortom described his mother, the late Mrs. Wajina Ortom, a petty trader and farmer, as the epitome of hard work and the mainstay of the entire family, adding that she laboured to provide food for every member.

    He said she requested that he buy a mattress for her in 1982, but he was not able to fulfill the wish, until she had a miscarriage on the farm and died in 1983.

    The governor expressed appreciation to God that He prospered the seed she had sown by using him as a blessing to multitudes of people.

    He pledged that the state government would empower the Vigilante Group to complement the security agencies in the task of curbing crime.

    Governor Ortom stated, however, that they would operate under the guidance and supervision of traditional rulers and other community leaders.

    He promised to provide an earth dam and other critical infrastructure for the community as soon as the financial fortunes of the state improved.

    President of Kwenev Community Development Association, Mr. Stephen Ikomon, commended the governor for the appointment of several indigenes into government positions and requested for more of such.

    He listed lack of portable water, construction or rehabilitation of the Agasha Road, compensation for land acquired by the Nigeria Airforce, and establishment of a police station as challenges of the community for which he solicited assistance.

  • Lamido of Adamawa loses mother

    Hajiya Sa’adatu Musdafa, the mother of Lamido of Adamawa, Alhaji Barkindo Musdafa, is dead, the family has confirmed.

    Sa’adatu, 87, passed on Wednesday after a brief illness.

    Her death was confirmed by her grandson, who is also Kauran Adamawa, Alhaji Musdafa Barkindo.

    The deceased, popularly known as Adda, is survived by the Lamido, grandchildren and great grand-children.

    She has been buried according to Islamic rites.